Charles Counsell, an executive director at The Pensions Regulator, has been named the new Money Advice Service chief executive this morning.

Details of a revamped London-based Paraplanners Powwow have been unveiled today, with organisers promising thought provoking ideas and CPD.

A well known former adviser and trainer of advisers has been handed a nine year disqualification.

A Chartered Financial Planning firm has joined an adviser firm network as it bids to achieve its long-term goals.

Financial Planning professionals have outlined a whole range of improvements they want to see made by platforms.

A 26 year-old who recently became qualified as a Chartered Wealth Manager has won promotion at his firm.

Discretionary fund manager Beaufort Investment Management has revealed a new chief executive.

Research into the under-35s has revealed widespread ignorance of the pensions freedoms, two years on from the changes, with 7m saying they know “nothing” about the pension revolution.

The Financial Conduct Authority has permanently banned and imposed financial penalties on two former employees of collapsed firm Worldspreads Limited (WSL) which used fake client accounts and made unauthorised use of real client accounts.

Share Radio, a financial and personal finance radio station, is to close in May after two and a half years of DAB broadcasting due to difficulty in attracting sufficient revenue.